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fTbi World "Within.
Many teU ua of the beauties
Of .the world wherein we dwell
Of the forest, rock, and fountain, '
' Of the aystal stream and dell ;
' : Of the outward ties that chain us
. : With a holy binding spell y .: ,. .
Of the gentle word of kindness,
: 1 lliat iiivite us-tliat is well.
Still there's a world of beauty
" . I Je3 h.idd'jn from the view
The sacred world within us, ::.
With its varied shape and hue. i
Who can read the happy spirit ?
Who can paiut the pleasing scene ? ,
Are not thoughts that thus inherit'""
Brighter far tlian gems may seem ?.
Ilare .not hopes more, verdant foliage : ;
Than the palm or forest tree ?
Do not thoughts more gently ripple -,
t Thau a peaceful moonlit sea? ,
Though the storms of adverse fortune ,
On the outward world may frown, '
Still the inward world may glisten
, VTith a radiance all its own.
The rock majestic towering, : , ' . V' " ;
The cavern bounded shor",
May be matched in miud's iuiugiuing
'Till time shall be no more ;
The wean's vast expansion,
With its fathomless abyss,
And treasures deeply hidden,
Are small compared to this. , .
The mind's insatiate longing,
With endlen motion rife," "'
Knows no ending, nor a limit . .
ITirough the active path of life; '. ;
il'cn : then its powers expanding; .
When this world no more is ef n
Troves the beautiful enduring
Of the world that dwells within.
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r7 IBTItfQ'i LIFE OF WASHINGTON. T ,
X Is Washington Irving's Life of the Great
Patriot, lately published,: the yreatest pleas
ure is to be derived from reading his, graphic
and vivid pictures of -Virginia life in 1759
3, and Washington's personal character and
habits. ' These are unhackneyed themes,' and
when treated with such literary skill, they
'liave a peculiar charm. . The following ex
tract will give some idea of that part of the
work to which wc now refer :
""From a' letter to bis correspondents in
'England, it would appear that Washington
had long entertaiued desire to visit that
country Had he done so, his acknowledged
inerit and military services would have in
sured him - a distinguished reception ; and it
Lad been intimated that the signal favor of
government might have changed the current
of his career. ' We believe him, however to
have been too pure a patriot, and too clearly
possessed of the true interests of his country,
to be diverted from the course which he ulti
jnatcljf adopted. JIis marriage," at any rate,
had put an cud to all travelling inclinations.
In this letter from Mount Vernon he writes :
? I am now, I beleive, fixed iu this seat, with
an agreeablo partner for life ; and I hope to
find more happiness in retirement than I ever
Experienced in the wide and bustling world.'
This was no Utopian dream' transiently,
indulged, amid the charms of -novelty. It
ms s deliberate purpose with him, the result
of innate and enduring inclinations. .Through
out the whole course of his career, agricultu
ral life, appears to have been his beau-ideal of
existence, which haunted his thoughts even
amid the stern ' duties of the field, and to
which he recurred with unflagging interest,
whenever enabled to indulge his natural bias.
.v, " Mount Vernon was his harbor of repose,
ipbeije e Repeatedly fuTled his sail, and fan
;ied himself anchored for life. - No impulse of
ambition tempted hin thence i nothing but
he call of. his country, and Via devotion to
,he publie good. The place waa fdeaed to
-hil b7 remembrauce of his brother Lay
urence. and of the happy days he bad passed:
here with that brother .in Jhe days of boy--toodj
but.it was a delightful fhee in itself,
and well calculated o-inspire the rural feeK
, ' The mansion was beautifully situated, on
swelling height, crowned with wood, and
commanding a magnificent view np and down
he Potomac. The groaads inwodijitely about
t "were laid out somewhat io the .English
8t- TW estate wast appo'rtioned y into sep
; jrato rn, devpteij t'diffeVent kinds of. cul-
towever, traa still
-t ma auowea laoorers. :, Wnca,
coTfred withild ttoo3
seamed with deep dells and runs of water, and
indented with inlets ; haunts of deer, and lurk
ing-place of foxes the whole woody region
along the Potomac, from Mount Vernon to
Belvoir," and far beyond, with' its range of for
ests and hills, and picturesque promontories,
affording sports of various kinds, and was a
noble hunting ground. Washington had
hunted through it with old Lord Fairfax, in
his stripplin days : we do not wonder that
his feelings throughout life incessantly turned
to it. ; . - .' ; :-'. v -'.;'i ' -: ' -;
These .were, as yet, , the . aristocratical
day a of c Virginia. The estates jwerolarge,
and continued inhe same families by entails.
Many of the wealthy planters were connected
with old families in England The , young
men, especially the older sons, were often sent
to finish their education there, and on their
return, brought out the tastes and habits of
the mother country. The governors of Vir
ginia were from the higher ranks of society,
and. maintained a corresdonding state. The
' established' or Episcopal Church predomina
ted throughout the ' ancient dominion as it
was termed ; each county was divided . into
parishes, as in England each with its paro
chial church, its parsonage, and gldbe. Well
ington was vestryman of two parishes,' Fairfax
and Trurn ; the parochial church of the former
was at Alexandria, fcen miles from Mount
Vernon ; of the latter, at Pohick, about seven
miles The church of Pohick was rebuilt on
a plan of his own, and, -in a great measure, at
his expense. At one or other of lheo church
es he attended every Sunday, when the weath
er and the roads permitted , His demeanor
was reverential and devout. Mrs. Washing
ton knelt during the prayers ; he always stood,
as was the custom at that time. Both were
communicants. . . ; ; , .
: " Among his occasional visitors and associ
ates were Captain Hugh , Mercer and Dr.
Craik ; the former, after his narrow . escapes
from the tomahawk and ncalping-knife, was
quietly settled at Fredericksburg ; the latter,
after the'eampaigns on the frontier were over,
had taken up his residence at Alexandria, and
was now Washington's family . physician.
Both were drawn to him by campaigning ties
and recollections, and were ever; welcome at
Mount Vernon ; ; ; . .-
,, " A style of living prevailed among the op
ulent Virginian families in those days that has
long since faded away. The ; houses were
spacious, commodious, liberal in all their ap
pointments, and fitted to cope with the free
handed, open-hearted hospitality of the own
ers. ' Nothing was more common than to sec
handsomo services of plate, elegant equipages,
and superb carriage-horses all imported from
England. - .
" The Virginians have always been noted
for their love of horses ; a manly passion
wLich in those days of opulence, they indulg
ed, without regard to" expense.'- Tho rich
planters vied with each other in their studs,
importing the best English stock Mention is
made of one, of the Randolphs of Tuckahoe,
who built a stable for his favorite dapple-gray
horse, Shakspeare, with a recess for,. the bed
of the negro groom, who always slept beside
him at night.' - " 'Y ' ;
i : " Washington, by his marriage, had added
about one hundred thousand dollars to his al
ready considerable fortune, and was enabled
to live in ample and dignified style. Jlis in
timacy with the Fairfaxes, and his intercourse
with British officers of rank, , perhaps, , had
their influence on his mode of living. ... He
had his chariot and four, with black postilions
io livery, for the use of Mrs Washington and
her lady visitors. " As for himself, he" always
appeared on horseback. Ilis stable was well
filled, and "admirably .regulated. His stud
was ' thoroughbred, g and . in excellent order.
His household books contain registers of the
names, ages, and marks of his favorite horses;
such a Ajax, Blueskin, Valiant, ; Magnolia,
(oa Arab,) eto. . Also his dogs, chiefly fox
hounds, Vulcan, Singer, ; Itingwood, Sweet
lips, Forester, Music, Kookwood, Truelove,
etc. - He was an early riser,' often be
fore daybreak in the winter, when the; nights
were long. On such occasions he lit hia own
fire, and wrote or read by 'candle-light. He
breakfasted at seven in summer, at eight in
winter. Two small enps of tea and three or
four cakes of Indian meal (called hoe-cakes)
formod his frugal repast. Immediately after
breakfast' he mounted his ' horse and ' visited
those parte of the estate where any work was
going pn, seeing to everything with his own
eyes, and often aiding with hia own. hands.;, .
' Dinner was served at" two o'clock. 1; He
ate heartily, but was po epicure, por critical
about his food, .' His beverage wag small beer
or cider, and two glasses of old Madeira; He
took tea, of which he was very fond,; early in
the evening, and retired for tha might: about
PintJ O'clock,' v v .ri.is .
' : confined to the house by bad weather,
he tooV that ocoasioft ta arrange, hia paperp,
post-up his accounts or write letters; pa6Bing,
part of the, time in reading, and occasionally
reading aloud to the family. ," : t" t'. -. j
i .. He treated his negroes with kindness, at
tended io' their' comforts, "was particularly
careful of them in sickness, but never tolerated
idleness, and exacted . a faithful performance
of all their allotted tasks. c He had . a quick
eye at calculating each man's capabilities.
An entry in his dairy gives a curious instance
of this. Four of his negroes, employed as
carpenters, were hewing and shaping" timber.
It appeared to him, inr noting the amount of
work accomplished-. between 1 two -succeeding
mornings, that they loitered at their labor.
Sitting down. gi?tly bejtimedtheir operations;
how long it tookthenatq get their crosscut
saw and other implemements ready; how long
to clear away the branches from the trunk of
a fallen tree ; how long to hew and saw, it;
what time was expended in : considering and
consulting ; and, after all, how much work
was effected during the time he looked, on.
From this he made his computation how much
they could execute in the course of a day, work
ing entirely at their ease. '. - , , .. '
At another time we find hin working for
a part of two days with Peter; his smith,- to
make a plough on a new invention of his own:
This, after two or three failures, - he accom-plisbed.-
Then, with less than his usual judg
ement, ho put his two chariot" horses to '.the
plough, and ran a great risk of spoiling them,
in giving his new invention a trial over ground
thickly swarded.;I -T, ' ' -;
; Anoni" during a thunder-storm, a fright
ened negro alarms the house with word that
the mill is giving way, upon which there is a
general turn-out of all the forces, with Wash
ihgtob at their head, wheeling and shovelling
gravel during a pelting rain , . to check the
rushing water. , .-:
"Washington delighed in the chase. In
tho hunting season, when he rode out early in
the morning to visit distant parts of the estate,
where work was going on, he often took some
of the dogs with him for the chance of- start
ing' a fox, which he occasionally i id, though j
he was not always successful in killing him.
He was a bold rider and an admirable horse
man, though be never claimed the, merit of
being an accomplished - fox-hunter. In the
height of the season, however,"' he would "be
out with the fox-hounds two or three times a
week, accompanied by his guesis at . Mount
.Vernon and the gentlemen of the neighbor
hood, especially the Fairfaxes of "Bel7oir, "of
which estate his friend George William Fair
fax was now proprietor. On such occasions
there would be a hunting dinner at one or
other of those establishments, at which con
vivial repasts Washington is said to have en
joyed him self with unwonted hilarity. ...
: THE BATTLE OF BEANDYWTNE.' .V
BT BICUAKD EVERITT.
At the latter end of August," 1777, Lord
Howe, with an army of about eighteen thou
sand men, sailed up the Chesapeake Bay, and
landed near Elk ton. ,' It was the intention, of
the British commander to march directly to
Philadelphia, but he was delayed, fromL vari
ous causes, several weeks. J ' " ' 5
J Washington at once divined that Howe's
movement was towards Philadelphia ; and ac
cordingly ' he put forth every effort to raise a
force capable of resisting him with some hope
of success. ; - .- '.' s- .A
s" We will pass over the prelimniary, acts of
the armies," their lnanceyering; &c, nor will
we,; dwelC upon t the superhuman . exertions
made by the Americans to retard the - British
force, and to bring into the field a. respectable
army. ; Leaving those incidental matters, we
will turn at 'once, to the 11th of Sept.' '1777
Lv was about daybreak when the Britisharmy,
eighteen thousand strong, in several columns
began to move towards the American posi
tion. ' Washington had" parted his' aarmy,
which numbr.ed"about eleven thousand nien
regular ;. and militia in . several , divisions
around Chadd's Ford.': Sullivan La Fayette,
Wayne Max well; were in command of differ
ent ' portions of the infantry!, ' Tha artillery
was directed by Knox, and the cavalry by the
brave Pulafiku . ,7 ;!-r.;-s; ;'. .
'-' The British- vanunder General Ivnyphau
sen, advanced directly. uron the ford, and en
gaged. General Maxwell. whoso troops ; being
militia were jgradually driven back. Being
reinforced,' however,: Maxwell's men charged
the'enemy so vigorously that they halted fr
"a short ii'ma.r"JirJbi4-ihfcjtJw'M Wry stubborn,
but the British rallied,' and ax-last succeeded
in i .driving -l Maxwell's forces across - the ford.
AJ heavy cannonade now -commenced between
tho two-; armies without any definite "results.
The 'British lost some' three - hundred men,
while to rthe patriots the 'damage' was'Hrifling.
Knyphausen's attack proved to be a foint, for
Cornwalis,ith'a rong division marched up
the" Brandywine'-riveri,' crossed and J moved
swiftly down against Sullivan's division, whose
duty was toVwatohJb fords just above ,tho
point of .-Knyphausen's 'assault ;;
SuUivan was nearly taken.-fcy surprise, t so
sudden s the tsovement cf the British Gen
eral, i ' his array was not entirely: formed
for bai. j, ihhen.' the British and -German
troops t ara upon The patriots received
the sho x wiih firmnefi ' The enemy's artil
lery be.rperior to the American, , it 'soon
made Icfpa in their -'ranks. 1'The militia
receive several charges from the British reg
ulars jr i returned theni with great courage.
Every exertion was put forth by Sullivan and
his officers to encourage-their troops. The
carnage v " dreadful, and not until an over
whelms : ";rce of the enemy came o", did
tha A&wt iwm VwItrtra3eT',-'wicHe
of fire, ' slowly, first one wing and then the
other rigan to waver. In vain did Sullivan,
covered with dust and blood, attempt to stay
his men. La Fayette on foot," hui ried from
rank to rank, and begged the soldiers to'stand
firm until death I , ; But in vain I -, ; - -; ,. .
The, qtorm of battle poured over - the field
and both wings of Suilivans army were hurled
back, shattered and nearly deStroyed. But
the centre, Borne eight hundred men stood like
a" living wall.. The resistless cannon , ball
plowed through their ranks, but they closed
them up again. The German and the Brit
ish, grenadiers more than once charged in
vain. . Sullivan, La Fayette and Stirling toil
ed like heroes to make a final stand until re
inforcements could come up. ; But La Fay
ette fell, shot through the leg ; two of Suili
vans aids were Silled, and" the " detachment
reduced to a few hundred men were compelled
to, join' their retreating comrades, and the
whole body, in great disorder closely pursued
by the victorious enemy rushed on toward the
main army -at Chadd's Ford. ' x "
...Alarmed at the sound of battle in .the di
rection, of Sullivan's position, Washington
sent Greene, with his division to give aid if
necessary.. His men .were marching briskly
along, when messengers from Sullivan told
how fierce was the battle, and this was corro
borated by the heavy cannonade, which every
moment grew louder and louder. The truth
flashed upon Greene in an instant Corn waiis
had attacked Greene's division I Orders were
given to the men to march ""in double quick
time" were instantly - given". The men . re
sponded with shouts, and it u a matter or his
tory that Wraynes 'troops marched four milct
in forty mi'nuiei. .,( . 7 7. . t
About one mile from the battle field Wayne
met the flying Americans. 7 He opened his
ranks, and allowing them to pass through,
showed an undaunted front to the English, and
received them with well directed volleys from
his artillery. Count Pulaski with his splen
did corps of cavalry, also charged in a gallant
and successful manner upon the - advancing
squadrons, beating them back in a gallant
style.- Another battle now began, and con
tinued until darkness came down upon . both
armies. r The British could not advance,
while the retreating forces of General Sulli
van were gathered and re-organized Al
though pressed very . hardr Greene's corps
holds its ground, and when night came on the
two armies were very close together- r
The British force being greatly superior to
the Americans in every respect, Washington
concluded not to risk another engagement,
but that night his troops retreated,' and the
next day marched to German town. " '
Sullivan had been censured for negligence
in allowing ' himself to bo surprised by the
British army,' but ' he was cleared from any
such imputation by a committee of investiga
tion. The battle of Brandy wine proved fatal
to the American cause, although to the royal
forees it was a dear victory. Their loss was
over eight hundred killed, wounded and miss
ing. The patriots lost in the same, manner
over twelve hundred men, more .than two
thirds lailitia. Ten -small cannon: also fell
into the hands of the enemy. '- ' ('
In, this battle,-. Count Pulaski, the accom
plished Polish officer, took & prominent port.
He commanded the cavalry a -fine corps
which he, had "drilled to perfection.' . When
the pursuing columns of English came up with
Greene's; nien, , .Pulaski charged upon their
ranks (disordered by the pursuits) and cut
down whole platoons.
Scicidk "in xhjs Bridal Chamber.- Miss
Clara Haskinsyras found, dead. in her bridal
dress and chamber near .Natchez, Mississippi,
on the 27th inst.'-' After being dressed by her
bridesmaids she requested them to retire for
a short titne 'and when they returned' they
found her laying lifeless upon ; her couch,
with' an empty phial which .had' contained
prussio acid stilt claspeofin 'her hand.'--She
had adopted the desperate alternative of self
destruction rather than marry a man' she could
not love in obedience to parental " authoi c.
' ,,x i ' .
.-s-.arA young lady walking out ono fine
morning, met the celebrated John Wilkes.
7 ''.you see sir,' I have come out to get a lit
tle sun &nk air." ' " ; . i
b'" Too, ia4 better, madam, get a little hus
band first,0 said Wilkes.
7 re 100 Pr to Taj .
- , Yes, it was a lovely spot, that vil avo-,
yard! Such a one, I fancy, as inpUed the
' Elegy in a Country Church yarl " ! There
was less pomp and show than iu cur city bur
ial places, bufwhatof that, as Jeremy Taylor
says, " We cannot deeuie God and nature,
for a cofUn is a coQn, though 'if be covered
with a Buniptuous pall." So"a grave' is a
grave, though it be piled over with sculptured
marble. '
Then that Utile girl t" How her image
comes ap before me, bendiDg over her moth-z-grel
Hteaykod eiJ ,- and
was soon drawn towards the spot where she
was , kneeling .1 approached cautiously
there was something so sacred in the picture
of that child weeping at a new-made grave,
that I feared myl presence might break 'the
rapture of her taournful musing. I know not
how long I might have stood apparently read
ing the. rude grave stone, had not the child
raised her eyes and timidly said : .
"Our little Willie sleeps here. We's too
poor to get a tomb-stone ; we and the angels
knows where he lies, and mothers says that's
enough." 7 .' -' -;,
Are you not afraid to : be here alone V
I asked. '7- "''". ' V V
"Oh, no; mother is sick and couldn't
come, so she said I must come and see if the
violets are in bloom yet." ' '- i
now old was your brother V, I asked , feel
ing interested in the little girL
' He was only seven years old ; and he was
so good, and he had such beautiful eyes ; but
he could not see a bit,'' . ... . . f
. 'Indeed! was he blind ?" - -.
V You see he was sick for a long time ; yet
his eyes were blue and bright as the blue sky
with stars'in it, and wa did not know he was
getting blind, till one day I brought him a
pretty rose, and he asked Is it a white rose,
Dora T 7 7 ' 7 ""' " "' : '
" 4 Can't you sec, darling ?' asked mother
." .No, I can't see anything. . I wish you
would open the window, it is so dark.' .
; Then we knew that poor little Willie was
blind ; but be lived a long time after .- that,
-and used to put his hand on our - faces and
feel if we were crying, and tell us not to cry,
for he could see God, and Heaven and the
Angels! 7 I'll see you too, when you go away
from this dark place.' "
. " So one day he closed his eyes and fell
asleep ; and mother said he was asleep in '
Jesus. Then we brought him here and buried
him ; and though we are too poor to get a
tomb-stone, yet we can plant flowers on his
little grave, and nobody'll "trouble them. I
know, when they learn that Willie sleeps here.'
PifJiiLOus Dssgknt is a Baiaook. Mons.
Godard, with four other persons, made an as
cent in a monster balloon at Cincinati, on
Monday of last week. A . reporter of the
Times, who was one of the aerial voyagers,
gives the following account of the descent :
" Soon after Monsier Godard had furnished
the altitude from his barometer, he gave us
notice that.we were descending. By gesture,
he ordered us to lay flat down in the : bottom
of the car, when ho gave the word of com
mand, and not to jump out of the car under
any circumstances. Just then we-struck a
tremendous gale of wind, and it was evident
that wo were not only sailing furiously, but
desending rapidly. It was so dark that noth
ing could be discovered, .but our commander
mounted the side of the car, cast out his an
chor acd waited the result. He commanded
us to , lie down, and .we ' had hardly obeyed
before ' we felt, the car brushing over the tree
tops. The anchor caught and held us for a
moment, ' then we dashed with' furious "speed
into an adjoining oorn-field--a field, however,
that was full of stumps. .Suddenly the ear
was dashed with great force against a tree;
then up we went; then down, now dragging
on a fence, again striking a stump or a tree
with great velocity and again whizzing over
tho corn-stalks at a lightning gallop. Every
man laid close to the bottom of the car except
Mons. "Godard," who stood up,, holding upon
the valve', all hoping that the monster would
soon be controlled, and wc landed safely on
terrajirma.,: - ' i j:j,.', ; ,11 ,,i .J.J..;,.;'
' Suddenly the balloon took, a fearful leap
and brought the car with, a tremendous crash
against a srump, half upsetting it. Mons.
Godard's face struck the fence, and he was
"thrown to the ground. ' At the same moment,
Colonel Latham and Mr. Hole were thrown
headforemost out of the car..,i Mr.. Belman
and ourself were left in . the car alone, and,
relieved of the greater portion of its weight,
we expected to bound again into the' air.
Mr. Belman," with great intrepidify, olamber
ed. up the car side and seized thevalre rope,
while Mons. Godard took, hold of th rope
swinging below. A furious wind at that nio-.
mcut swept past, the balloon made another
bouody and dashed the car against; a tall,'
heavy, dead tree. The blow kuocked us in
sensible, and the next wo knew we were lying
with our back upon the ground, the raiu boat
ing in our face, :our head crowded tntoouo
corner of the "ar, and the trunk of a tree ly
ing across' our body. J We could not move
It appears that the netting caught in the tree
we hare 'mentioned, and so strong' was the
force , of the wind that the balloon pulled it
over on to the car,s and the gas then escaping
rapidly, th tree held the balloon secure.Ti,J
The Eird Hurler.
Lieut. Gibson's explorations in the -valley
of the Amazon presents to the 1 reader many
interesting features We clip , te following
in reUtioa to bird hunters : . : ; x ;
" There are- a few individuals' anxortgtha
Creoles of Santa Cruz who unerstand the art
of collecting and preserving the skins of birds
with arsenical soap: They 'mske their living
by stuffing birds with cotton, to be boxed up
ar d .exported. ' : The bird-collectot differs from
the bark -gatherer ; he is found oa the -.plains
as. cilAaitrtha.wooii JLI auuuu;uon. is .
good powder, in small tin canisters,- different
sized shot, and a small quantity of quicksilver.-
The phot are for . ordinary birds. He
puts a few drops of quicksilver .in jl .small
piece of paper,- and loads his gun with it in
stead of shot. The quicksilver knocks" tho
humming-bird over, without tearing .the skin
or disfiguring the plumage ; it stuns and - be
fore the bird recovers, the sportsman has, him
in hand. After the hunter has collected some
five hundred kinds, he then becomes . difficult
to please ; he wants the beautiful little song
ster who sits' at the base ' of. the Andes and
sends forth his music before . the rising '. sun.
.There are many birds who feed by night and
sleep in daylight; some steal v the eggs .from
their neighbors ; others drive away the pa
rents, feed and rear their young, , or sit- upon
the eggs, and hatch them for the rightfaLown
er. All these birds we peearound us have
their regular hours for feeding, singing, bath-
ing, resting and sleeping. ; .. . . . , 4 '.A
We met a bird hunter in Trinidad; he Jiad
been at work two years collecting near .six
hundred different kinds. - Ho was of opinion
there are over a thousand varieties of night
and day birds to "be found in the ' Madeira
Platte, besides snakes, lizards and any quan
tity of insects. Trinidad was his headquar
ters, from which he branched off in all direc
tions during the dry season. His room" was
a perfect curiosity shop.; 3 The birds ..were
rolled up in paper after, being properly cured,
and stowed away in large .wooden, boxes.
Every day,- at different hours, he went to tho
field ; after days of labor,' he ' would ". be seen
returning with a single : bird ."differing from
any in his room. He ' procures ' poisonous
snakes by epliting the end of a stick to ' form
a fork, which he places over the neck of tie
snake, and holds him until a gourd or . bottle
is fixed over his head, when , he loosens his
fork and. the snake crawls into the cavity.
He then corks the gourd and puts it into his
pocket. After the snake starves to death or
is drowned in spirits, his skin is taken - off.
preserved, and stuffed, ready for transporting
to the museums of the civilized world, -' ?
During the rainy season the" bird hunter
enters a canoe, and repairs to those ' places
where the various animals are' collected to
gether. He . obtains many species there,
which would require a length of time to fol
low op, and fills his canoe" with venison and
deer skins. " -'' - L '-' ' -' "-'
WosnxES or California. It is a work of
considerable difficulty to believe all the stories
of vegetable life that come to us in the Cali
fornia papers. We can stand beets as long
as a man's leg and thirty inches in circum
ference, onions as large as a peck measure,
and cabbages weighing sixty pounds;' but
when , they swear to a hundred and twenty
bushels of wheat to the acre and potatoes
weighing half a hundred wc begin to hesitit.
But their big trees are tho wonder of tho
.world. : .The Mammoth Grove is a forest, of
such monsters. : Situated four . thousand vo
hundred feet above San Francisco, it has coma
to be a summer resort of the people.'- The
largest tree is ninety-five feet in circumfer
ence, and two are sixty-five feet in circumfer
ence, and three hundred feet high, and beau
tiful' to look at 7, At the grove is a first class
hotel. , On the body of the big tree theie Is a
house twenty-four by eighty, which coutains
two fine .bowling alleys. The stump of tin
tree is intended for a baU-rvom f.-frBuJilo
Advertiser. -: --' ; -
. I - California Fashion. ' u -. -V
, . .-. .. - i : .J
yesterday : . ,
A few. days emce, a Gorman ( waa riatng
along Sansom streetjoear Sacramento, whea
be heard the whizzing of ball acr.r binc'fcn'i
felt his hat shaken.' lie lumed about;'
saw a "man with a'revolver iv his' band, and!
took off his hat and "found a fre&V lajcVh(!
i it -"''""
i " Did you shoot at m 2" asked th CteBman,
. " Ys," replied the other: jar.y, 4that
uiy horse ; it wa stolen from n recently." :
'-' You must be mislaken says the Gertusu
I have .owned, the horse fca- three years."""-
" Well.' says th w Kc thr I ota to.
look at biui I believe. oi istei. . Excuse,
nic, rir; won't yc. ows sud take a drink ?
The rider djounlod, Hedhis. horsetLe.
two found atfcijatog salog'a.by. they hob cob
bed and djok . together, and parted friaods.
That v the California fashion to make acuaix
tuKcv Cro. 4 , . .A .s ; . , .. .